John Ward (Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles)

John James Ward ( born September 28, 1920 in Los Angeles, † January 10, 2011 in Culver City ) was a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles.

Life

The son of Irish immigrants came in 1940 in the St. John's Seminary in Camarillo one. On May 4, 1946 John James Ward received by Archbishop John Cantwell ordination. From 1949 to 1952 he studied at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and earned a licentiate in canon law.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on 16 October 1963, Titular Bishop of Bria and appointed him auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles. The archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal James Francis Aloysius McIntyre, donated to him on 12 December of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Joseph Thomas McGucken, Archbishop of San Francisco, and Alden John Bell, Bishop of Sacramento. Ward took part in the third and fourth sessions of the Second Vatican Council as a Council Father.

On 7 May 1996, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation and appointed him age-related on 15 June 1996 on the Titular Bishop of California. He was almost 33 years in office the longest active auxiliary bishop in the United States.

John Ward was Commander with Star (KC * HS) of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem.